<%@ page language="java" import="java.util.*" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%
String path = request.getContextPath();
String basePath = request.getScheme()+"://"+request.getServerName()+":"+request.getServerPort()+path+"/";
%>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <head>
    <base href="<%=basePath%>">
    
    <title>My JSP 'MyJsp.jsp' starting page</title>
    
	<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">
	<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache">
	<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0">    
	<meta http-equiv="keywords" content="keyword1,keyword2,keyword3">
	<meta http-equiv="description" content="This is my page">
	<!--
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css">
	-->
<script type="text/javascript">
function showit(){
     var formnamre, theform, txtarname, thetxtar
     formname="fa"
     txtarname="inneed"
     
     theform=document.forms[formname]
     thetxtar=theform[txtarname].value
     
     thetxtar=thetxtar.split("\n")
        for (i=0; i<thetxtar.length; i++){ alert("string number "+i+": "thetxtar[i]) }
     
     }
</script>
</head>
<body>
<textarea id="texta" cols="90" rows="9">
I think you could use the split function to break
the text into an array.
Then check the array's length to get
the line count.
</textarea>
<br>
<button onclick="showit()">count</button>
</body></html>
